The Pipeline
By 5by5
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Podcast Description
The Pipeline is an interview show, featuring in-depth conversations with innovators, designers, geeks, newsmakers, entrepreneurs, and people who create amazing things. Hosted by Dan Benjamin.
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The Pipeline 57: Aaron Hillegass | Aaron Hillegass joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, his path as an entrepreneur, Apple, NeXT, Steve Jobs, speaking, conferences, monastic developers, and more. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 56: Rich Siegel | Rich Siegel, founder of Bare Bones, talks with Dan Benjamin about his company's long history, shaping products, building, growing and supporting a business and customer base, running a virtual company, hiring the right people, and more. | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 55: Jonathan Mann | Jonathan Mann, best known as the "song a day guy", talks with Dan Benjamin about songwriting, creativity, inspiration, music, the web, and fighting negativity with positive honesty. | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 54: Ethan Marcotte | Ethan Marcotte talks with Dan Benjamin about writing, design, creativity, being an entrepreneur vs. a corporate stooge, responsive web design, and more. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 53: Craig Adams | Craig Adams, creator of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery joins Dan Benjamin to talk about creating the game, Steve Jobs and Nintendo's Miyamoto, the importance of crafting user experience, impossible transitions, and "pretending long enough" to be successful. | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 52: Horace Dediu | Horace Dediu joins Dan Benjamin to discuss to discuss the life of the professional smartphone analyst, how he built asymco.com to 500,000 readers in only 9 months, curated market intelligence, the language of business, engineering, asymmetry, fearlessness, knowing what you're doing, the post-pc world, and the concept of the disruptive lens. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 51: Michael Friedman | Michael Friedman joins Dan Benjamin to talk about reality television, winning an Emmy, online audio and video, record companies, cable TV, the future of media as we know it, changing careers from "suit to editor," scarcity, creativity, and more. | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 50: Ze Frank | Ze Frank joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, video work, The Show, Star.me, creativity, and business. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 49: Philip Elmer-DeWitt | Philip Elmer-DeWitt, 30-year magazine veteran, joins Dan Benjamin to discuss writing, technology, apple, and the changing world of online publishing. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 48: Garrett Dimon | Garrett Dimon joins Dan Benjamin to discuss going independent, starting a business, the entrepreneurial spirit, big wins, dark days, and more. | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 47: Robert Scoble | Robert Scoble joins Dan Benjamin to discuss the future of the tech newsroom, watching patterns, filtering information, trust, honesty, technology, content curation, branding, your reputation online, and "looking for magic." | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 46: Dave Nanian | Dave Nanian joins Dan Benjamin to discuss his experience and share his wisdom regarding his success as an entrepreneur and commercial software developer. They talk about creating exciting, useful, and well engineered applications, slow successes, startups | 3/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 45: Jessica Hische | Jessica Hische joins Dan Benjamin to discuss design, illustration, school and work, creative spaces, hand-lettering, type design, inspiration, freelance, and more. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 44: Jesse Jacobs | Dan Benjamin talks with Jesse Jacobs, founder of the Samovar tea lounges, about epiphany, refining experience, connecting to customers, time enhancement, dealing with fear, and tea as a vehicle to creating space in life for inspiration. | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 43: Mike Monteiro | Mike Monteiro, co-founder of Mule Design, talks with Dan Benjamin about independent work, founding and running a studio, creativity, the true definition of design, and being infamous on Twitter. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 42: Anders Hejdenberg | Dan Benjamin talks with Anders Hejdenberg, successful iOS game designer, about making software that creates happiness, favoring enjoyment over money (and getting both), the new economy of games, and more. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 41: Kyle Bragger | Kyle Bragger joins Dan Benjamin to discuss the creation of Forrst.com, building an online community, working with remote teams, getting funding, and making real life connections. | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 40: Tobias Lütke | Tobias Lütke joins Dan Benjamin to offer a candid look behind the scenes at Shopify, transparency, the intersection of elegance and minimalism, and the importance of design and usability. | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 39: Garrett Murray | Garrett Murray talks with Dan Benjamin about filmmaking, software development, inspiration, and the future of the web as a platform for creativity. | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 38: Jeff Atwood | Jeff Atwood talks with Dan Benjamin about starting a business, running projects, software development, StackOverflow, and more. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 37: Sarah Parmenter | Sarah Parmenter of You Know Who talks with Dan Benjamin about design, creativity, speaking, art, being a woman in a male dominated field, and more. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 36: Craig Hockenberry | Craig Hockenberry joins Dan Benjamin to talk about the evolution of the iPhone as a development platform, the Iconfactory, old school software development, writing, inspiration, building a career as a programmer, and more. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 35: Dan Cederholm | Dan Cederholm joins Dan Benjamin to discuss design, business development, public speaking, the blog gap, working outside the tech scene, distractions, blogs vs. twitter, designing in code, dribbble, Cork'd, and book writing. | 12/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 34: Roger Black | Roger Black joins Dan Benjamin to discuss evolution of technology, how to observe, the smart/lazy quadrant, the origin of the web, 1-on-1 connections with real people, caring about content, and more. | 12/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 33: Joshua Topolsky | Josh Topolsky, Editor-in-chief of Endgadget, joins Dan Benjamin to talk about the Internet, web culture, embracing geekdom, and his journey from musician to gadget master. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 32: Simon Collison | Simon Collison joins Dan Benjamin to discuss design, speaking, writing, publishing, launching a conference, great successes, and incredible failures. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 31: Andy Baio | Andy Baio joins Dan Benjamin to discuss joining Expert Labs, Kickstarter, the inspiration for Upcoming.org, working for Yahoo!, the Star Wars Kid, copyrights, and more. | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 30: Markus "Notch" Persson | Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the indie game Minecraft, talks with Dan Benjamin about inspiration, creativity, and the future of gaming. | 11/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 29: Jesse Thorn | Dan Benjamin talks with Jesse Thorn, host of The Sound of Young America, about his beginnings, inspiration, creativity, interviewing, the evolution of talk radio, and more. | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 28: Marco Arment | Dan Benjamin talks with Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper and co-founder of Tumblr about inspiration, development, design, creativity, making the transition to independence, and more. | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 27: Anil Dash | Dan Benjamin talks with Anil Dash about the web, blogging, being an entrepreneur, and changing society with technology. Anil is one of the earliest and most influential bloggers on the Internet, founding Director of Expert Labs, and co-founder and partner | 9/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 26: MC Frontalot | Dan Benjamin talks with Damian Hess, better known as MC Frontalot, a hip hop musician and the founder of the Nerdcore hip-hop. They discuss Front's creative process, transitioning from a day-job making websites to a full-time musician, touring, geek cultu | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 25: Scott Beale | Dan Benjamin talks with Scott Beale of Laughing Squid about the web, creative commons, photography, art, music, independence, and more. | 9/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 24: Tina Roth Eisenberg | Dan Benjamin talks with Tina Roth Eisenberg, creator of swiss-miss.com, founder of Creative Mornings and TeuxDeux. They discuss design, creativity, inspiration, honesty, celebrity, the evolution of ideas into a websites and web applications, and more. | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 23: John Siracusa | Dan Benjamin talks with John Siracusa about writing, development, technology, the changing audience for gaming, and the future of content creation for the web. | 8/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 22: Adam Lisagor | Dan Benjamin talks with Adam Lisagor about leaving a life of editing TV commercials and creating visual effects to become a pitchman for a new generation, lending his unique approach and personality to innovative tech companies to help them spread their w | 7/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 21: Heather Champ | Dan Benjamin talks with Heather Champ, former Community Manager at Flickr, and founder of the Mirror Project, JPG Magazine, and Fertile Medium. They discuss social community, privacy, and more. | 7/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 20: Clayton Morris | Dan Benjamin interviews Clayton Morris, self-described casual geek and anchor of Fox and Friends about inspiration and creativity, authenticity online and on TV, the way we as viewers are changing the shape of media, pursuing your dreams, balancing work a | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 19: Eric Meyer | Dan Benjamin interviews Eric Meyer, an internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, working on the web since 1993. They discuss the changing world of web design, CSS and HTML, motivation, inspiration, and quality. | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 18: Gary Vaynerchuk | Dan Benjamin interviews Gary Vaynerchuk about inspiration, drive, his new book and where he's headed. | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 17: Alex Payne | Dan Benjamin interviews Alex Payne, a noted software developer, speaker, and writer, who has just left a senior engineering role at Twitter, where he was the 8th employee, to join the startup BankSimple, a customer-focused online bank, as co-founder and C | 6/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 16: Derek Powazek | Dan Benjamin interviews Derek Powazek of Fray, HotWired, Technorati, and his new company, Fertile Medium. They discuss the ongoing revolution in publishing, redefining journalism, connecting communities, and creating content online in entirely new ways. | 5/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 15: Jeffrey Veen | Dan Benjamin interviews Jeffrey Veen, author and speaker, founder of Typekit. They discuss the web, being acquired by Google, working at Adaptive Path, Wired, WebMonkey and HotWired, launching a successful startup, working with local and virtual teams, an | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 14: Neil Patel | Dan Benjamin talks with Neil Patel, co-founder of several successful businesses including Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. They discuss being an entrepreneur, success vs. failure, startups, investing, the reality of SEO, and more. | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 13: Andy Ihnatko | Dan Benjamin interviews Andy Ihnatko, noted author, columnist at The Chicago Sun Times and Macworld, podcaster on Mac Break Weekly, frequent speaker, Apple guru, and geek extraordinaire. | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 12: Liz Danzico | Dan Benjamin interviews Liz Danzico, writer, speaker, interface architect and user experience expert. They discuss design, curating, user experience, writing for the web, the future of the web and social networks, and where we're headed as an online commu | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 11: Jason Snell | Dan Benjamin interviews Jason Snell, Editor in Chief of Macworld. They talk about the craft of web and magazine writing, balancing a print magazine and website, the ongoing (and historical) shift in media consumption, the key to writing in the technology | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 10: Gina Trapani | Dan Benjamin interviews Gina Trapani, award-winning author, blogger, programmer, and founder of Lifehacker. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 9: Melissa Pierce | This week's guest is Melissa Pierce, an artist and entrepreneur. Her new documentary film, Life in Perpetual Beta, which explores the cultural shift created by technology, is nearing completion. | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 8: Jason Kottke | Dan Benjamin interviews Jason Kottke, the independent publisher of kottke.org since 1998. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 7: Merlin Mann | Merlin Mann is an independent writer, speaker, and broadcaster based in San Francisco. | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 6: Matt Haughey | Matthew Haughey is a programmer, web designer, and blogger. He is the founder of MetaFilter, the PVRblog, and Fueley, and the publisher of the long-running weblog A Whole Lotta Nothing. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 5: Shaun Inman | Dan Benjamin interviews Shaun Inman, the creator of Mint, Fever, IFR, and Mimeo, a brand new game for the iPhone. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 4: Jim Coudal | Dan Benjamin talks with Jim Coudal about independence, the web, being an entrepreneur, the golden touch, Kubrick, and more. | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 3: Jason Fried | Dan Benjamin interviews Jason Fried, co-founder of 37 Signals, the company behind Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, Backpack, and the author of a new book, REWORK. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 2: Ryan Carson | Dan Benjamin interviews Ryan Carson, the co-founder and voice of Carsonified and organizer of conferences like Chirp, the Twitter Developer Conference, about how he works, his inspiration, how he's built such a strong personal brand, the Carsonified 4-day | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Pipeline 1: Jeffrey Zeldman | Dan Benjamin interviews Jeffrey Zeldman, designer, founder of ALA. They discuss the evolution of the internet, the web, web standards, Happy Cog, A List Apart, An Event Apart, and something new: A Book Apart. | 2/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 57 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Insightful, Educational, and Interesting
Dan has done an excellent job not only getting successful and interesting people on the show, but interviewing them and eliciting interesting conversations about design, development, business, and entrepreneurship. If you are interested in business and the trials and tribulations that happen behind the scenes, this is a great podcast to listen to.
I've tried for some time to get into the habit of listening to Podcasts, but I had a hard time finding anything that really made me excited to listen regularly. The Pipeline has changed that and has me looking forward to the next episode every week.
So far, so great!
As someone who's parent's could not afford an internet connected computer during the mid 90's it is great to hear Dan interview web pioneers. It's a great history lesson and really makes you appreciate those who came before. Dan does a great job interviewing the geek greats.
45 minutes of bliss.
The Pipeline is a podcast you simply must listen to.
Originally, I began listening to The Pipeline to keep my ears busy at work. A few of my co-workers overheard part of the podcast and immediately had me turn it up. A few minutes later and the whole office listened to the entire episode and, when The Pipeline ended, we all agreed that we had to listen to more great podcasts from 5by5 (the "company" responsible for The Pipeline).
We ended up listening to another podcast and enjoyed it so much that the entire office is excitedly anticipating upcoming episodes!
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